The Municipal Workers' Union (, KTV) was a

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

representing local government workers in

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

. The union as founded in 1931 as the Finnish Municipal Workers' Union, and affiliated to the Finnish Federation of Trade Unions (SAK). It resigned in 1962, but in 1969 was a founding affiliate of SAK's successor, the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions. The union changed its name to become the "Municipal Workers' Union" in 1958, and then the Local Government Union in 1991. In 1982, the Mental Health and Disability Union merged into KTV, which became the largest union in Finland, and by 1998, it had 220,000 members. At the start of 2006, KTV merged with the Organisation of State Employees, the State and Special Employees' Union, the Finnish Custom Officers' Union, the Finnish Prison Officers' Union, and the Coastguard Union, to form the Public and Welfare Services Union.{{cite web , last1=Kuusisto , first1=Aleksi , title=Finland's largest union begins operations , url=https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/article/2006/finlands-largest-union-begins-operations , website=Eurofound , accessdate=11 March 2020

Presidents

:1946: Juho Kivistö :1951: Reino Heinonen :1971: Jaakko Riikonen :1973: Olavi Dahl :1979: Pekka Salonen :1989: Jouni Riskilä :2001: Tuire Santamäki-Vuori

References

Municipal workers' trade unions Trade unions in Finland Trade unions established in 1931 Trade unions disestablished in 2006